| rdfs:comment | - Xenozoic Tales is an alternative comic book by Mark Schultz set in a post-apocalyptic future. Publication began in 1986 with the story "Xenozoic!" included in the comic anthology Death Rattle. This was shortly followed by Xenozoic Tales #1 in February 1987. The comic series ran for 14 issues, and has been reprinted by several publishers, including Kitchen Sink Press, Marvel, and Dark Horse. The series proved moderately successful, and under the more memorable title, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, the series spawned a cartoon series premiered on CBS, an arcade game from Capcom, a home video game from Rocket Science Games, action figures, trading cards, candy bars, and a Twilight 2000 system role-playing game.
- The series proved moderately successful, and under the title Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, the series spawned a Cadillacs and Dinosaurs (TV series)|cartoon series]] premiered on CBS]], an Cadillacs and Dinosaurs (arcade game)|arcade game]] from Capcom]], a Cadillacs and Dinosaurs: The Second Cataclysm|home video game]] from Rocket Science Games]], action figures, trading card]]s, candy bars, and a Twilight 2000]] system Role-playing game. The comic book reprints from Kitchen Sink and Marvel also used the Cadillacs and Dinosaurs title.
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| abstract | - The series proved moderately successful, and under the title Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, the series spawned a Cadillacs and Dinosaurs (TV series)|cartoon series]] premiered on CBS]], an Cadillacs and Dinosaurs (arcade game)|arcade game]] from Capcom]], a Cadillacs and Dinosaurs: The Second Cataclysm|home video game]] from Rocket Science Games]], action figures, trading card]]s, candy bars, and a Twilight 2000]] system Role-playing game. The comic book reprints from Kitchen Sink and Marvel also used the Cadillacs and Dinosaurs title. The title "Cadillacs and Dinosaurs" and the likenesses of classic Cadillac automobiles were used with the consent of General Motors, who holds the phrase "Cadillacs and Dinosaurs" as a trademark and has licensed it for the comic, the Cadillacs and Dinosaurs (video game)|videogame]] and Cadillacs and Dinosaurs (TV series)|the animated series]]. The original series has been collected multiple times. In 2003, Dark Horse Comics]] published Xeonozoic Tales Volume 1 on April 23, followed by Volume 2 on July 16, which collected all the stories by Mark Schultz. In November 2010, most of the series, apart from the stories drawn by Steve Stiles]], was reprinted in one volume under the title Xenozoic (Flesk Publications, ISBN 978-1-933865-31-7). Flesk also released a limited edition hardcover of the book in 2013 after raising funds through Kickstarter]]. An Artists Edition from IDW Publishing]] was released in August 2013 and contains oversized reprints of the original art from issues 9 - 14 of the series.
- Xenozoic Tales is an alternative comic book by Mark Schultz set in a post-apocalyptic future. Publication began in 1986 with the story "Xenozoic!" included in the comic anthology Death Rattle. This was shortly followed by Xenozoic Tales #1 in February 1987. The comic series ran for 14 issues, and has been reprinted by several publishers, including Kitchen Sink Press, Marvel, and Dark Horse. The series proved moderately successful, and under the more memorable title, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, the series spawned a cartoon series premiered on CBS, an arcade game from Capcom, a home video game from Rocket Science Games, action figures, trading cards, candy bars, and a Twilight 2000 system role-playing game. The comic book reprints from Kitchen Sink and Marvel also used the Cadillacs and Dinosaurs title. In November, 2010, most of the series, apart from the stories drawn by Steve Stiles, was reprinted in one volume under the title Xenozoic (Flesk Publications, ISBN 978-1-933865-31-7). Many toons are based on what Hollywood calls "high concept" — an expression of 25 words or less that gives you a good idea of what the series is all about. "Little boy doesn't speak in words, but only in sound effects (Gerald McBoing-Boing). "A couple of guys are so sickeningly polite, they fall all over each other and can't get a darned thing done (Alphonse & Gaston). "Man has extraordinary powers and uses them to help people, having exciting adventures as he does" (Superman and any number of his super-heroic imitators). In one respect, at least, Cadillacs & Dinosaurs is a good example. In fact, it's pretty much a title-tells-all situation. It's about Cadillacs and dinosaurs, and that's it. But how creator Mark Schultz got both Cadillacs and dinosaurs into the same series isn't the sort of thing that can be explained in 25 words or less. The series takes place several hundred years in the future, after a mostly-undescribed ecological upheaval resulted in the resurgence of many formerly-extinct species, especially large and exciting ones such as dinosaurs. How did extinct species come back to life? Hard to say — but it should be noted that it's at least consistent with some pre-Darwin theories attempting to explain fossils, which hypothesized grand life cycles affecting world-wide ecology over millions of years.
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